Or, maybe it has something to do with who owns print and broadcast media, social media and other algorithmic psyop structures, and is leaning hard on educational curricula.
The social narrative. The information water most people swim in. It’s owned by the adversaries of universal suffrage.
Billionaires own the legacy media and most social media.
In other words, they control the means of social reproduction.
Buckminster Fuller, who was smart enough to predict the geometry of the most common object in space, the ‘Bucky Ball’ and designed geodesic domes, thought that eating steak was more efficient than plants because the cow focused the nutrients.
Stay in your lane, experts.
It’s not just too small. It’s a torture chamber for echolocation and intelligent beings that can swim vast distances.
Think of gitmo with stress positions and metallica blaring nonstop and the lights are always on.
Eating a tiger liver would probably kill you with Vitamin A poisoning, a particularly painful affliction.
Easy to just avoid eating entirely, even if the rest of it is safe enough.
Apple doesn’t want people using the mouse with the cable attached because it would cost them a fortune due to failed charging ports within the warranty period. It’s a wireless mouse. Using it plugged in will fuck it up.
I fix computers and an apple mouse with a bad charge port is just a throwaway.
Mac Mini M1 when it was released was a good deal compared to same form factor machines at similar prices. Same for the M1 MacBook Air, despite the base RAM.
That advantage lasted a while, too, considering battery life and build quality.
iMac G4.
The iMac G5 started the fat monitor on a leg design.
I’m the one who is awake by the fire when the sabretooth shows up at midnight. I’m the one going around telling everyone to get outside, the house is on fire. I’m the one who is suddenly at the bottom of the small cliff, still steaming and naked from the hot tub, doing first aid assessment on the partier who fell off. I’m the one who burns for 14 hours and gets the team to push that working build out minutes before going live.
There’s dopamine in there. We’re starved for it daily so we can go hard in some way when it counts.
Did you have one in mind? Or are the words synonymous?
Respectfully, carbon footprint as a measure is just a measurement and is really useful in the right context. It’s important to remember that it’s the misapplication to individuals that is a con game.
When Rees and Wackernagel came up with ecological footprint as a measure, it introduced a systems analysis to human activity that we really needed. Carbon footprint is just a subset of that and ignoring it is futile. Just apply the analysis where it matters: militaries, mining, transport, energy, civil engineering, etc etc.
Not only did I opt out, verbally by calling OnStar from the car, I then removed the cell antenna (SparkEV), which works well in the rural areas where I live, not sure about a cellular-dense location, they can probably track pings now and then. So, if I get around to it I will look into disconnecting the cell module under the passenger seat.
Thelma and Louise is the Great American Movie.
Bullshit, I went through their post history and it isn’t zionist. Stop that.
And dogs. Stupid humans make their regular dogs stupid too. (Some dogs aren’t blessed with much of that clever wild brain to begin with, I know. I like chocolate labs anyway.)
I worked in the specialty AIDS ward in St. Stephen’s hospital in London (before any meds were available).
AIDS has a devil’s banquet of particular cruelties as the diseases it kills with are many, some are particularly horrific, and they overlap so that the comorbidity of all this horrible shit happening at once is itself an overriding cruelty.
Sometimes it goes on forever, and also I watched buff fit vibrant people burst out in painful cancerous lesions and waste away to a stick figure in a month.
AIDS is a concentration camp not a prison, unless you have the best meds and care.
Drupal scales well and is very extensible with features that allow complicated permissions systems, etc. I have built some complicated courseware with it, and big document archives, etc. It has a skilled developer community. I wouldn’t use it for small inexpensive sites, but it’s top tier and free/liberated.
Joomla’s code a decade ago was so inefficient and clunky to work with I could never recommend it, my main interaction with it was troubleshooting and helping folks escape it. Maybe it’s improved.
Hey watch it with that ‘never’ commitment eh!
A long time ago business class Brother printers weren’t always that easy or reliable, and the HP’s were rock solid and straightforward. If Brother enshittifies, the rankings will change.
You cannot call slapping on an external storage device “upgrading storage”, WTF are you on about? Are you just completely unaware of what a *ridiculous* solution that is to a problem that the OEM _intentionally_ created?
Oh I am very aware of how annoying and hostile it is to users: I repair computers, including macs.
I didn’t write upgrade, don’t twist arguments or it’s bad faith. Adding TB4 drives to a workstation is just normal in the industry, don’t take it out on me. In that situation it’s no big deal, and yes all the gear is expensive to an amateur.
We are getting off the original point that someone trying to break into an industry has to hew to the existing standards, and those standards often use FCP ProRes files so you better give in. While your tone was contemptuous and dismissive, you seemed a little curious about why that might be. I have tried to address that.
Suggesting that a young professional trying to break into a decent paying job in the media production industry would use a chromebook or any version of linux for production is a non-starter.
If a Framework workstation (I had no idea they made one, thought it was all laptops) runs something other than Linux or Windows, I am curious what it could be.
Still, if you had to provide support for a wide variety of everyday users, I suspect your opinion on ‘user-friendliness’ would shift. Even Mint is problematic for most users as soon as they are required to step out of basic admin production. Windows is worse, unless you fully bend over for MS.
Now I have to get back to ungluing a shitty battery out of a shitty macbook., hidden by sleazy little pentalobe screws.
[Side note that “botched” means incompetent or clumsily made, i.e. intentionally broken.]
I always took it to mean that people are fed shit information by design and we should fix that.